Laundry-tag



A. F. HANNEY.

LAUNDRY TAG.

APPLICATION FILED MAR 12.1918.

Patented Mar. 15, 1921.

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OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ALEXANDER GAIHELL, or cnrcaeo, rumors.

LAUNDRY-TAG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 15, 1921.

Application filed 1mm 12, 1918. Serial No. 221,899.

T 0 all whom it may Be it known that citizen of the United of the city of Chicago,

co'rwem:

I, ANGUS F. HANNEY, a States, and a resident county of Cook, and

State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Laundry Tags.

of which the following is My invention a specification.

relates to improvements in laundry tags and has for its object the production of an improved construction of thls character by laundried may means of which articles to be be readily marked for identification and said tagsreadily removed from said articles.

The invention consists in and arrangement of parts scribed and claimed.

The invention will be the combinations hereinafter debest understood by reference to the accompanying drawings formin a part of this, specification,

in whic Figure 1 is a struction embodying in position for use,

and

perspective view of a conthe invention shown Fig. 2, a transverse section of the same, Fig. 3, an enlarged section of one of a plurality of laundry tags employed inthe construction,

Fig. 4, an enlarged section taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 3, and

i Fig. 5, an enlarged section taken-on line 5-5 of Fig. 3.

The preferred. form of construction as illustrated in the drawing comprises a mark ing member 6 preferably made of two in the form of a hollow disk sheet metal stampings suitably secured together and provided in its lower edge with a notch 6' adapted to an article 7 to be launreceive the edge dried, as indicated. The member 6 is also provided with a substantially inverted T- shaped opening 8 extending therethrough and with a slide 9 operating therein. The

slide 9 is substantially cross, between lips or flanges from the sides of membe having one arm 10 11 and 12 struck r 6, said arm-being provided also with a depression 13 adapted to receive a her as indicated.

with a plunger arm 15 bead 14 in the side of said mem- V The slide 9 is provided sliding through a suitable slot in the edge of the member 6 and which said slide may be moved in said member by forcing the arm 15 inwardly, the bead 14 enga ging the depression 111 the form of a slidably mounteding member 6 may be readily secured to the edges of various articles to be laundried by simply inserting said edges in the notches 6 and pressing on the plungers 15 to cause the pins 18 to penetrate the edges of said articles.v

Cooperating with the marking members 6 1s a supporting bar 19 removably mounted in a suitable support 20, as indicated. The bar 19 is provided at its free end with a beveled nose 21 to facilitate the passage of the openings 8 in said'bar. Cam lugs 22 having their outer edges beveled or slotted to constitute cam surfaces are arranged on opposite sides of bar 19 at a considerable distance from the outer free end thereof.

In use the marking members 6 are provided with suitable numbers, letters, or the like, for identifying the laundried pieces of different customers, and are secured to the edges of the articles to be laundried. After the articles have been laundried, the same are suspended on a bar 19 by passingthe .marking members 6 over said bar until all the marking membersover marking members and releasing the pin 18 from the articles permitting the same to fall into a receptacle or onto a surface provided therefor. This arrangement permits of the ready assembling of the articles of any one customer and of the practically simultaneous removal of all of the identificationtags therefrom. After the tags have thus been removed from the laudried articles, they' in turn are removed from the bar 19 by removing said bar from its support 20 and sliding the laundry tags from the supported end of bar 19 whereupon the tags will. be

assembled to correspond with the customers articles in connection with. which they have been used. This arrangement constitutes a simple and effective one for the purpose and one which greatly facilitates the rerying my but desire to said support for automatically laundry marking memb marking members,

rality of said members;

penetrate an article;

moval of the laundry tags and also tends greatly to prevent their loss.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred form of construction for carinvention into effect, this is capable of variation and modification without departing from the spirit of the invention. I therefore, do not wish to be limited to the precise details of construction set forth, avail myself of such variations and modifications as come within the scope of the appended claims.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let- 15 ters Patent is 1. In combination, cal laundry marking members, each made comparatively small and flat; means on each of said marking members for detachably 20 securing the same to an article tobe laundried; a support adapted to receive a plurality of said marking members, said members being readily removable from and replaceable on said support; and means on releasing said members from the articles upon movement of said members" along said support, substantially as described.

2. In combination, a plurality of identical ers made comparatively small and flat; means on each of said members for detachably securing the same to an article to be laundried; a readily detachable support for a plurality of said said members being readily removable from and replaceable on said support; and means located at one point of said support for automatically releasing all of said members from the articles 40 upon movement of said members along said support, substantially as described.

3. tag comprising a marking member; a shiftable pin on said member adapted to penetrate an article; a. support for a pluand means on said support for shifting said pin to release the articles, substantially as described.

4. A tag comprising a marking member; a shiftable pin on said member adapted to a support for a plurality of said members; and means on said support for shifting said pin to release the articles when said members are moved from one position to another thereon, substan- 5 5 tially as described.

5. A tag comprising a hollow marking member, there being a notch in one edge of said member anda substantially T-shaped opening extending through said member; a

slot in said member, said slot carrying a pin traversing said notch and arm traversing said opening and a plunger protrudlng a plurality of identimem ery, said marking membe cle to be laundried 'a support for a plurality of said marking members; and means on said support for releasing said members from the articles, substantially as described.

7. In combination, a laundry marking ber made comparatively small and flat and adapted to be secured to an article to be laundried whereby the same may be readily passed through laundrying machinr being perforated; means on sald marking member for detachably securing the same to an article to be laundried; a of said marking members, the perforations in said marking members being. adapted to slide over said support; and means on said support for releasing said members from the articles, substantially as described.

8. In combination, a plurality of identical laundry marking members, each made comparatively small and flat; means on each of said marking members for detachably securing the same to an article to be laundried; a support adapted to receive a plurality of said marking members; and means on said support for automatically releasing as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ANGUS F. HANNEY.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR A. OLSON, JOSHUA R. H. POTTS.

a laundry marking marklng member for support for a plurality all of said members from the articles upon 

